!!!Löwy, Josef

b. Bratislava, Slovakia (then Pressburg), Aug. 16, 1834, 
d. Vienna, March 24, 1902, painter and photographer. Studied at the 
Vienna Academy, owned a photographer's studio in Vienna and 
experimented with phototypography from 1872 onwards, founded an 
atelier for industrial photography, at the beginning of the 1880s he 
also produced heliogravures. As Imperial court photographer he made 
numerous pictures of the nobility, further themes were nudes, works of 
art and architecture.

!Literature
O. Hochreiter and T. Starl (ed.), Geschichte der 
Fotografie in Oesterreich, 2 vols., 1983; OeBL.



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